Only after having written my last blog post, I did I realise how much of a responsibility having kids is going to be. For those of you that haven’t read it, I described what an ideal day in the future would look like. One of the things that stood out was how much money would be spent on the kids compared to most parents these days.

Once you compare it to my experience as a kid growing up, it gets crazier!

I was born into a traditional household, where traditional gender roles were the norm – my mother stayed at home to take care of me and my sister, so there was only one breadwinner.

My father was merely the manager of a grocery store – a job like that today earns around £36,000 a year after taxes. An income like that in London (where I was brought up) would be more halved to just to pay the rent (~£20,000/yr – and that’s just for a 2 bed apartment). That leaves £16,000 for everything else!

To put into perspective how unaffordable a salary like that is: The average household according to the ONS spent £441.10 a week (exc. housing and energy) in 2022. This would leave dad £7000 in the hole! He’d be more broke than an iPhone thrown down 3 flights of stairs! Once you realise that we live in 2025, it’s even worse.

It partly answers why women are choosing not to have kids. Childlessness was already on the rise as of 2016 – the average family size for women born in 1971, and reaching age 45 years in 2016, was 1.90 children per woman, the lowest level ever recorded. The reasons cited by the ONS study included:

• Increased participation in higher education
• Delayed marriage
• And the desire to establish a career, get on the housing ladder and ensure financial stability before starting a family.

As a reader, I ask you to think about what happens in a society where the average person cannot even attain financial stability?

The average income in 2024 was only £36,663 (less than dad!). Both parents are forced to work stressful full-time jobs while juggling the task of raising multiple kids to just make it pay check-to-pay check. The women that do choose to have kids have less of them. Given that it takes 2.1 children per woman to replace a population, many Western and Eastern countries (most notably Japan and South Korea) are facing a rapidly aging yet declining working force.

This means that society faces new challenges ahead. A declining working force leaves no one to pay into state pensions. The US, the world’s wealthiest country, is set to run out of its social security as early as 2035. As someone who wants to have and raise kids on this very planet, it’s difficult to come to terms with this reality.

However, the future is not bleak for all of us. There is a way to avoid facing such a harsh reality.

Imagine a reality where you have enough resources to do whatever you want, whether it be travelling the world, living in that large house that you’ve been eyeing up on Rightmove, or simply being able to afford having kids, the one thing no parent regrets having.

Resciply was founded on a principle: to rescind + multiply. It is a mission designed to educate people on how they can set themselves for a successful future in an increasingly expensive society.

Life is not easy, but it certainly will be.